Introduction to Epidemiology credit:

3 Hours

Introduces the basic principles and methods of epidemiology, with an emphasis on critical thinking, analytic skills, and application to clinical practice and research. Topics include patterns of disease occurrence, outcome measures, methods of adjustment, surveillance, quantitative study designs, and sources of data, as applied in health education, health services administration and planning, health policy, and environmental health. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: Quantitative Reasoning I